Arms
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Famous quotes containing the word arms:
“What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his artwhat but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intoxicating, hypnotically caressing, heavily upholsteredin a word, the luxurious quality of his music?”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (18901969)
“I take your arms boldly,
each day a new excursion.
Come, my sister,
we are two virgins,
our lives once more perfected
and unused.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)